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Florida Focus wins BEA Signature Award

Florida Focus finished in second place in the Broadcast Education Association’s Dr. Marjorie Yambor Signature Station Competition, which is sponsored by BEA’s Student Media Advisors interest division. This is the first time Florida Focus has entered this competition. The mission of the competition is to identify and impart areas of excellence in the hands-on facilitation of station functions such as philosophical engagement, community involvement

2024 AAF Tampa Bay Award Winners

Z School advertising students were recognized in the first round of the national American Advertising Federation ADDY Awards Program, one of the industry’s largest creative competitions, attracting nearly 35,000 professional and student entries each year in competitions offered through local AAF clubs. Aaron Payne won three Gold ADDY awards, including the award for Advertising Craft: Copywriting. A team of Z School advertising students, including

Professor Mimi Perreault Releases New Book

Crisis Communication Case Studies on COVID-19 Multidimensional Perspectives and Applications This edited volume employs a case study approach to examine communication surrounding the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The text is accessible to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, while also useful for scholars’ teaching and research. The chapters are written by a diverse group of scholars and experts in a wide-array of communi

VÅ« Studios CEO Tim Moore Receives Award

Tim Moore, three-time Emmy Award-Winning Director and CEO of Vū Technologies, recently received the inaugural Media and Communication Visionary Award presented annually by The Zimmerman School to someone whose vision and entrepreneurial thinking have elevated Tampa Bay as a hub of media and communication innovation and helped to inspire creative problem solving that advances the role of media and communication in democratic societies. “Tim Moore